Deadline extended May 15: RC40 Mini-conference

RC40 Mini-conference - The Food System in the (Post-) Pandemic World: Disruptions, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Alternatives. Leipzig, Germany October 20-21, 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has once again illuminated multiple flaws in our food system. Food supplies largely rely on long-distance food chains, many of which have been disrupted due to lockdowns and trade restrictions. The pandemic has left millions of people temporarily or permanently more food insecure, as they have lost income sources and are suffering from a pandemic-induced global recession. COVID-19 has sharply exposed the vulnerabilities of capitalist-industrial agri-food relations, and has significantly intensified them. At the same time, we have also seen that agri-food relations can be resilient, as people have experienced new forms of solidarity. The scope, depth, and intensity of current agri-food related problems - as well as the continuous search for alternatives - require us to reconsider the major themes of the sociology of agriculture and food: the globalization of agri-food; the reconfiguration of socio-ecological linkages between agri-food and nature; the politics of agriculture and food; and the methodological and theoretical ways we make sense of these within agri-food scholarship. Full call: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~sfb1199/app/uploads/2022/03/ISA-RC40-MiniConference-CfP-Final-2022-03-15.pdf